Full Moons in 2015

I've noticed that the Full Moons this year are in synch with the calendar months. This great for someone like me who sees the moon more often than a calender. It won't last so enjoy it - and enjoy a Christmas Full Moon to end the year!

January 4th
February 3rd
March 5th      
April 4th
May 3rd
June 2nd
July 1st
July 31st
August 29th
September 27th
October 27th
November 25th
December 25th

I noticed that there was going to be a blue moon in July!

One of the benefits of having the months in synch with the moons.

Also some relevant etymology:

Should be a beautiful full moon tonight

Too bad all the fireworks are blocking the view -_-

St. John's was actually clear tonight! It was a beautiful night (10 degrees) and clear!

Just a head's up (literally) that tomorrow is the next Full Moon. It looks like it may be cloudy here, but last the night the sky was flooded with moon light after a great sunset rain burst.

The August Moon is low in the sky and a warm off-white, a modest welcoming moon. The air is still warm, the night is still.

Plans are underway, the geese have been shifting positions, the loons are talkative night & day, but no rush yet. Oblivious springlings - like the bear cub I watched stumble around a valley or the grackle chicks the size of their parents - have no idea of how much this land can transform in winter...  Right now the night is alive, with many small animals jumping around in the dark grass.

Remember the April moon? It was wild with power. I understand why the Christian try to tame it with Easter ritual, it is the first unmistakably spring moon and it shines with that energy. Soon the autumn moons will shine with the inverse of that energy. The moon focuses and reflects the landscape below.

The August moon is modest, it has the accumulated warmth and seasonal maturity to make you feel welcome in the night. It has the confidence of late summer. The season slowly shifts toward shadow but the land still radiates absorbed heat.

A thin layer of stratus rapidly moves in, the moon light easily burns through it illuminating cloud contours like a quilted blanket.  Beside me two cats bookend a pillow, yesterday I loaded the shed full of wood, tomorrow my brother arrives from Newfoundland. the next full moon will be in September's dubious grip. The clouds drift off just after midnight and the small low moon lights up the southern sky until it is a dark slate blue.

This Sunday's Harvest moon will be a supermoon lunar eclipse and as marks the final eclipse of a series of four eclipses it will be a Blood Moon.

The partial eclipse begins at 9:07 EDT with totality beginning at 10:11 p.m. Totality ends at 11:23 pm EDT, with the second partial eclipse (as the moon slowly moves out of the shadow again) ending 12:27 a.m.

Here's hope for a clear Sunday night

The clouds came in just as the eclipse started.

The clouds left just as the eclipse was finishing.

The October full moon played peek-a-boo behind a slab of gray clouds that had been shredded my giant talons. Leaving tattered strata-culmus full of claw rends. The unobstructed moonlight was shining white-blue when the Moon emerged against the night sky, but just as often it was back-lighting the swiftly flowing clouds making them surreal in their vividness. A proper Hallowe'en night for witches and night-gaunts to take to the aerial realm to range the land in search of mischief and wavering souls.

Huge moon among pink clouds coming home from work on Monday. The largest I've seen this year. I know it's all a matter of perspective - but it was still strikingly big.  The snowy landscape is a perfect landscape for the Moon to sink into or rise from.

The full moon was out tonight (wed)! I forgot how bright the combination of snow and moonlight was, I could make my way through trails that would have been harder to due during a summer night. Despite the snowy ground this was a very mild night and I had moments of springtime deja vu. The humidity combined with some paper thin clouds to give the Moon a perfect grey halo. That soft aura actually made the Moon more real, sometimes when the full Moon is set against the blackness of the starry void it can shine so vividly it is hard to look at. The slightly soften Moon rising over a forest gave me a brief but sharp idea that I was looking at a three-dimensional chalky orb.

The clouds of the last few days had dampened my hopes - but the bright Moon came trailing a beautiful slight haze and warm winds that felt like spring

'Fortune presents gifts not according to the book
When you expect whistles it's flutes
When you expect flutes it's whistles'




The next Full Moon is on Christmas Day...